AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE

Healthy Timorese in a Healthy Timor-Leste.

Scope Asia develops concepts with the goal to accelerate the improvement of the health services through the collaboration with experienced partners.

​Atauro Eye ClinicTimor Leste also has one of the world’s highest rates of blindness and vision impairment. The main causes of blindness here, as elsewhere in the developing world, are cataract and uncorrected refractive error – both of which are treatable and preventable. Extending basic eye care services to remote areas such as Atauro is key to addressing the social and economic burden that avoidable blindness in Timor Leste represents.Atauro is a small rugged island situated 25km north of Timor Leste’s capital, Dili. It has a population of about 10,000. Frequented by landslides and periodic shortages of fresh water, the island is accessible only by a 2-hour ferry crossing from Dili once a week. ​Scope Asia supports the eye clinic (hier aufführen, bei was wir beteiligt sind!).​Read here more about Dr Andreas J. Kreis' work here.